Penn - 'Nova notes, without mentioning the word s***n

A lot went on in the Penn-Villanova game, so I'll try to write a few notes without talking about that one notable statistic.

The Penn football team sacked quarterback Antwon Young four times, but it really should have been a lot more than that. On what I could count as around four or five occasions, a Quakers defender had a hand or two on Young but could never quite get him down.

Young was just a bit too slippery for guys like Tom Stone or Britt Ertman, who beat their respective blockers, but found step two in the sack process to be unusually hard. The redshirt sophomore quarterback displayed a strength and slipperiness that Penn just wasn't used to.

"I guess I'd basically like to thank our strength and conditioning coach," Young said. "He's helped me to get stronger and be able to break little tackles and keep things alive with my feet, so I think that's a positive thing."

Still, Young is no running quarterback -- he threw for 241 yards four touchdowns and only one interception. In his fourth career start, he looked like the quarterback with the year or two of experience (sorry that slipped).

Wide receiver Dan Coleman, who seemed cemented as the starter may have been replaced by sophomore Marcus Lawrence.

Coleman got some snaps, but Lawrence garnered a lot more attention. While Coleman was held without a catch, Lawrence was second on the team in receiving, grabbing four balls for 55 yards. Before that game, he had only one career reception, a 13-yard pass in the opener.

This was the second-straight week that one receiver tore up the Quakers, while the others didn't really do anything.

In Week 1, Shaun Adair had 10 catches for 102 yards, while the second-highest receiver had 23 yards. Then last week, Phil Atkinson destroyed the Penn secondary, catching five balls for 112 yards and three touchdowns, as the rest of the team had 129 yards and one score.

The good and the bad:

The Quakers are 3-for-3 on extra points, but still haven't made a field goal.

Penn's opponents are 6-for-6 now in red zone scores, but only two of those have been touchdowns.

The Quakers have outscored their opponents 21-7 in the first quarter, but have zero points from then on, getting creamed 35-0 in the second, third and fourth.

Penn has only been out-gained by 151 total yards in the two losses, but the other team has held the ball for 17 minutes and 14 seconds longer.